Fighting For Favor, Fighting For Fame – Recruiting Armies In The Unforgiving World Of Medieval England
Recruiting an army could be a difficult business in the Middle Ages. Most people’s lives consisted of farming small patches of land. When people didn’t…
The Baking Powder Turned Explosive Device in Occupied China during WWII
Who’s up for some pancakes? How about exploding pancakes? In the midst of WWII technological acceleration, scientists on both sides were constantly engaged in figuring…
Hitler’s Escape Sub Possibly Found
One of the more colorful rumors floating around about the end of the Second World War was that Hitler and his inner-circle managed to escape…
BBC TV: A program on Churchill’s hand-picked spies & assassins
Among the little-known facts about the second world war was that Winston Churchill employed a league of hand-picked spies and assassins to assist in the…
War hero passes away: He was one of only two remaining Czech pilots who served in the RAF
Brigadier General Miroslav Liškutín passed away in the small English town of Fareham on February 19th, 2018, at the age of 98. He was one…
The Channel Dash Was Hitler Trying to Save His Ships – A Fast-Moving Naval Battle Of WWII
Most of the naval action of WWII took place in the vast spaces of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but there were also confrontations in…
Many of Germany’s finest tacticians & commanders of WWII served in the panzer forces. One of those men was Walther Nehring
First World War Born in 1892, Nehring entered the German army in 1911. At the start of WWI, he was sent to the Eastern Front…
RAF: The Tragic Sinking of the SS Cap Arcona, 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Killed
The end of WWII was only days away, yet the RAF carried out the Nazis dirty work for them during the Cap Arcona disaster. Docked…
Hermann Ramcke, German Marine Turned Paratroop General
In an American prison cell, a former German officer sat writing a letter to his captors. The war was over, but his concern for his…
Caligula, Arminius and Vercingetorix Rome’s Most Hated Persons
Rome hated a lot of people over the thousands of years it held power, so this list is far from comprehensive, feel free to add…
He Crashed his Plane to Save a Friend and Was Awarded the Medal Of Honor
Between November 27th, and December 13th, 1950, 30,000 United Nations troops fought a desperate defense while surrounded by 120,000 Chinese soldiers. The U.N. troops were part…
Battle of Berlin – The Soviets Hammering The Nail In the Coffin Of The Third Reich
For a war that left 60 million dead, countless lives permanently destroyed and hundreds of thousands homeless and in need, the Battle of Berlin proved…